Well, things have pretty quiet around here. Can't believe no one else has posted about this yet. Anyway....

Bought a new AppleTV and Jailbroke it. Right now, there are only a few apps ported to work on the new atv. I installed the most interesting ones, which include:

Plex - This is really early in development, but is still pretty cool. I can browse all of my Plex content, artwork and all. Right now only videos will actually play (no music or photos). The cool thing is that it allows playback of non-apple-sanctioned file formats. For example, I was able to play Toy Story 3 1080p mkv. Playback seems spotty... it might play the whole video, or only a few minutes and give an error. Also, it does not properly recognize the time of the video, therefore no fast-forward or rewind. Several of the plugins I tried work! (revision3, etc)

Groove - a simple Grooveshark client. Basically just a search box, but type in name of a band, song, or artist, and hundreds of results returned, album artwork and all. Playback is flawless. I recommend this only if you have an iDevice. Using the remote and the on-screen keyboard is tortuous! Artwork and controls show up in Apple Remote app. This plugin rocks! I typed in "thievery", pushed play, and had 200 Thievery Corporation tracks cued up.

NitoTV - adds weather and rss feeds. meh

Overflow - This allows you to reorganize the home screen into a separate folder. Things like Apple's "Movie" and "TV Show" rental that I'm likely to rarely use.

Mostly, this stuff is just an interesting glimpse of what we'll see. After all, the atv has only been jailbroken for a week or so.

I've got a Micro USB cable coming in the post, but if I update my Apple TV so I can use Airplay will I still be able to jailbreak it?_________________MacBook 1.83Ghz C2D, 2GB Ram, 160GB 7200rpm HDD, OS X 10.6.5
Harman Kardon Soundsticks II
Elgato EyeTV
iPhone 4 Black 16GB

I will be keeping an eye on this. If I can run plex on an Apple TV my Mini will go ing the bedroom and I will buy an Apple 27" CD instead of an iMac._________________[Day-to-day]MacBook Air 2.13Ghz 4GB RAM 256 SSD
[Media machine]Mac Mini 2.26Ghz 4GB RAM 9400m
[walk-I-talky]iPhone 3G 16GB
[walk-i-looky]iPad 3G 64Gb

It's true that the Plex app transcoder everything, even if it's already in an Apple-compatible format. The default version of ffmpthat the jailbreak app uses has mediocre resolution...maybe DVD quality (from a 7Mbps 720p source). There is an optional ffmpeg that can be used which dramatically improves playback quality, but a c2d machine doesn't have enough chutzpah and isn't up to the task. Many have reported that even their quad-core machines are struggling with the transcoding using the higher quality ffmpeg. At this point things are very rough around the edges, but the app shows promise.